Foreign Affairs

The first case of coronavirus is being reported in the Caribbean, after authorities in the Dominican Republic on Sunday confirmed that an Italian national was checked into a hospital on...

Hundreds of foreign migrants have been removed from central Cape Town by South African authorities following a months-long stand-off. The migrants, who were moved in an operation Sunday, had demanded...

Thousands of mourners thronged the coffins of five fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, whose funeral was held Sunday in southern Beirut after they were killed in neighboring Syria's...

The French community church in Rome, St. Louis of the French, closed its doors to the public on Sunday after a priest was infected with a new virus. The church...

British health authorities on Sunday announced 12 more confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, bringing the country's overall tally to 35. The government's chief medical officer, Prof. Chris Whitty, said...

The last group of about 130 crew members got off the Diamond Princess on Sunday, vacating the contaminated cruise ship and ending Japan's much criticized quarantine that left more than...

A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a...

Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the press during last week's deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi show...

A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a...

Iran's health ministry raised on Sunday the nationwide death toll from the new coronavirus to 54 as the number of infected cases jumped overnight to 978 people. The ministry's spokesman...

A driver who fatally stabbed two people guarding a virus-control roadblock in southwestern China was sentenced to death Sunday, a state news agency reported. The report was a rare sign...

As rooster crows break the silence of dawn, a dozen children march single file down a desolate dirt road and board a bus for school. There's not a person or...

The tiny nation of Qatar expressed disappointment Sunday that nearly all of its Gulf neighbors snubbed invitations to attend the weekend peace signing ceremony between the U.S. and the Taliban....

Afghanistan's president said Sunday that he will not free thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week, publicly disagreeing with a timetable for a speedy...

The number of people in Iran infected with the new coronavirus rose to 978 on Sunday – a 65% increase from the 593 cases recorded the previous day. The number...

BEIJING – Thailand and Australia both reported their first fatalities connected to coronavirus on Sunday, as infections soared beyond 3,500 in South Korea and deaths in China inched closer to...

Joe Biden finally won a primary. That kept him alive through Super Tuesday, a landscape so bleak that Pete Buttigieg called it quits on Sunday afternoon, scrapping a rally in...

A South Korean church accused of recklessly interfering with the country's fight against coronavirus may face criminal charges. Park Won-soon, the mayor of Seoul, said Sunday that the behavior of...

Turkey shot down two Syrian SU-24 warplanes and destroyed three Syrian air defense systems, the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The jets were shot down as...

People want to kill Waldemar Zurek. They shout epithets at him on the street. News sites call him a traitor, thief and disgrace to his country. His crime, as he...

Israelis head to the polls for the third time in less than a year on Monday, after the two previous parliamentary races ended inconclusively. Twenty-nine parties are running, but no...

The United Nations migration organization said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey's land border with Greece, after Turkey officially declared its western borders were open to...

Israel heads into its unprecedented third election in less than a year Monday after a tumultuous campaign that saw the prime minister indicted on corruption charges, President Donald Trump release...

For the third time in under a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks re-election, and once again the Israeli leader is on the ropes. After two inconclusive elections last year,...

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad called Sunday for an urgent Parliament sitting to contest the appointment of a former ally as the country's next prime minister under a new Malay-majority coalition that...

Preliminary results from Saturday's parliamentary election show Slovakia's opposition with a comfortable lead. With the votes from about 75% of the almost 6,000 polling stations counted by the Statistics Office...

A prominent member of a community of U.S.-Mexican dual citizens living in northern Mexico that was shattered by the November massacre of three women and six children along a rural...

Socialist hardliners in Venezuela opened fire during a march headed by Juan Guaidó, injuring a 16-year-old demonstrator and adding to tensions in the country as the opposition leader seeks to...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof's “There Is No Evil” won the Golden Bear prize Saturday for best picture at the Berlin Film Festival. Rasoulof wasn't there to accept the award due...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he will face corruption accusations against him head on in court and will not seek to pass legislation to derail his upcoming trial...

Egypt on Saturday said it would use “all available means” to defend “the interests” of its people after Ethiopia skipped the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks on a disputed Nile...

France is banning all indoor public gatherings of more than 5,000 people to slow its snowballing spread of coronavirus cases and recommending that people no longer greet each other with...

The patter of tiny feet is coming to Downing Street. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed Saturday that he and his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, are engaged to be married and...

A singer at Vivienne Westwood's eco-minded Paris Fashion Week show serenaded guests about fighting for the environment. Elie Saab's 1970's-inspired show was a study in the bow collar. Agnes B....

Officials in Ecuador on Saturday confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in the South American nation and Mexico reported a third case. Ecuador's Health Minister Catalina Andramuño Zeballos...

An association of judges in Poland published a report Saturday listing dozens of judges and prosecutors who face reprisals and disciplinary measures for having criticized or questioned changes the country's...

Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group lost at least eight fighters in northwest Syria in skirmishes with insurgents and airstrikes by Turkey's air force, an opposition war monitor and the militant group...

France is banning all indoor public gatherings of more than 5,000 people to slow the spread of a coronavirus epidemic. The cancellation of large gatherings in confined spaces was announced...

Afghanistan is America's longest war - longer than WWI, WWII and the Korean War combined. (Originally published in February 2018) … Click to Continue »

The former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak Karmal, setting the country on a path of...